central asia

China’s One Belt, One Road project (OBOR) anticipates revolutionizing trade throughout Asia and parts of Africa. The explicit objectives are prosperity for underdeveloped areas of China, increased connectivity and economic...

For all of the United States’ focus on defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), countering Russia, and balancing against a rising China, it has neglected a region critical to all of these issues: Central Asia....

With the passing this week of Uzbekistan’s leader of 27 years, Islam Karimov, the future of the nation and its foreign allegiances in the geopolitical landscape comes into question as the three superpowers – the United States,...